Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-11

ler," but l suspect that the implication
which the nickname carried was libel
upon his record.
Walking through the fashionable part
of the city yesterday an elegantly dressed
man, magniticently mounted, passed me.
His hair and heard were almost white,
! but he sat UpOG his horse with the dignity
and air # man of distinction. L did
not recognize in him at first my old
friend, Ex-Governor and ex-senator VIII
liam Pitt Kellogg. His experience as a
"carpetbaggeE" was more exciting than
that of almost any other, for Louisiana was
an unruly province. l shall never forget
Sunday morning call l made upon him
at the executive mansion IN New Or
leans in the early summer of 1873. 1t
was only few days after bloody
riot in Jackson square, in that city, and
the excitement over it had not subsidized.
His library looked like averIta5le armory.
There were guns and pistols everywhere,
and the Governors private secretary,
when went in, was engaged in cleaning
big navy revolver. The day before the
Governor had told me of steamboat he
had purchased, and which ne proposed to
fill with armed men and place on the Mis-
sissippi river. He had called upon the
President of the United States for troops
to preserve the peace. He said that he
could take care of himself and enforce
the laws without the aid of the federal
government, but that he was urged to
make the call by friends in the north, on
account of the political effect it would
have.
| Governor kellogg is a native of Yer
mont, but lived in Chicago before the
war. He was st one time Chief Justice of
the territory of Nebraska, and went to
the front as Colonel of the Seventh Illinois
| Cavalry. He served through the war and
was made Collector OF the Port CT New
| Orleans at its close. He was elected
Senator when the state was reconstructed,
was subsequently Governor, and then
again Senator.
Senator Kellogg has been one OF the
fortunate spectators in Washington real
estate, and, I understand, has become
rich. He has fine residence in this city
and resides here most of the year. He
will never probably appear again in pub
lie life.
The other "carp tbsg" Senator from
Louisiana was John S Harris, and he
was distinguished for not having been a
soldier. A native of New York, he went
to the Pelican State in 1863 to become q
cotton planter, and was engaged in that
business when reconstruction put him in
to the Senate. He was a quieter man
than his colleague, Kellogg, and naturally
dropped out OF the Senate when his term
of Office expired. | don't know where he
is now, but his successor, West, who was
also "carpetbagger," was subsequently
one of the commissioners of the District
OF COlumbia, and is still about Washing
ton here, poor man.
Powell Clayton was q striking figure IN
the United States Senate in those days.
He was q soldier in the Union army,
United States Senator and Governor of
Arkansas. He is a man of great nerve
and he needed it all TO maintain himself
In 1874, he and Garland, the present At
torney General of the United States, each
claimed to have been elected Governor,
and each was inaugurated by his pSrti-
sans. Then there was war. Each had
his little army and they encamped oppO-
site each other in the city of Little
Rock in hostile array. Clayton had
some rather remarkable men about
him. "Poker Jack" Mcclure was his
Chief-Justice of the Supreme court of
Arkansas, and used often to be in Wash
ington. He was q famous story teller,
national statesmen. My sides were sore
for week once after rainy day spent in
his company in a Chattanooga hotel. A
very bright and intelligent colored man,
when now frequently see about Printing
House square, in New York, was also one
of his attaches. Clayton is still in Arkan-
sas, and having repented of the error of
being a politician, is getting rich.
Senator Alexander Mcdonald went
from Pennsylvania to Arkansas before the
war, but espoused the Union cause and
was active in raising and equipping fed
eral troops. He was good business
man, and was the founder and president
of the First National Bank of Little
Rock. He was also the first man to sign
the call for a state convention under the
reconstruction act, and came to the Sen
ate when Arkansas was readmitted. Nc
Donald was solid man, and under more
favorable circumstances would have be-
come Influential in national politics. He
is now in New York, d successful bust
ness man.
South Carolina was weak in the United
States Senate under reconstruction. 1t
was possibly Patterson's misfortune, but
nobody ever had any confidence in him
when he was at Washington, and his
presence here was constant source of
annoyance to the white people Of the state
he nominally represented. With Moses
for GOVERNOR believe he is in jail
now: he has been most of the time late
ly, for sWindling or something of the
sort-a Legislature that was a screaming
farce, or would have been if it had not
been SO ruinously reckless in the expendi
ture Of the public money, and executive
officers who didn't know, many of them,
what honesty was, South Carolina was
severely punished for her leadership of
secession. But Patterson is doing better
than most of his "carpetbag" associates.
He is building horse railroads in Balti-
more and getting rich.
Frederick A. Sawyer, the other South
Carolina senator in 1870, was Yankee
schoolmaster who went from Massachu-
sets to Charleston before the war to be-
come principal of the state normal school.
He must have been successful, for the
people kept him there about three aud
half years after the war broke out IN
spite of his outspoken Union sentiments